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How do you write dialogue?
Writing dialogue is not as hard as you're letting it seem. You have dialogue all the time -- it's called talking. If you honestly cannot think of what your characters are goin…g to say to one another, you need to go take a break and go somewhere out in public. Sit somewhere in the middle of a crowd for one to two hours and just listen to people talking. Then, go home and write down some of the things you heard people saying. That's dialogue. When you need to have your characters talk, just pretend it's you and a friend (or several friends), and have them say something you'd probably say in the same situation. Then imagine what your friends would say in reply, and go back and forth that way. As you become a better writer, your characters themselves will "tell" you what they want to say, because they become like real people to you. If you're asking for the actual "what should it look like on the page," then you start a new paragraph whenever the speaker changes; you surround the dialogue in quotation marks to show it's spoken; you indent each new paragraph; and you add a modifier like "he said" or "she said" if it is needed to clearly show who spoke the lines -- you often do not need to include that, as you can show who is speaking by character actions and by giving each character an individual voice. (MORE)
